Started at the Woodland Campground Trailhead taking the Wittenberg-Cornell-Slide trail late Friday night and made it only a mile or so up the trail. Spent the night off of the trail. Started early Saturday morning and made it to Wittenberg, Cornell, and Slide and back to the car in just over three hours. Quite a bit of traffic on the trail.

Used the trailhead from the west, got on Slide-Cornell-Wittneburg trail. After the summit, worked my way almost to col between Slide and Cornell, then ran back. Gorgeous day, temps in mid 60's no humidity. Great views on ledge just before summit! Overall fun day!
From trailhead to summit took just under 43 mins.

While climbing Slide yesterday 9/28/13, I accidentally left my camera on a rock near the beginning of the trail up to the Brothers, near the Garden parking lot. Went back a few min later when I realized and it was already gone. If you have it Id love to get it back. Please call 518 424 5866. Thanks

There was hardly any snow on the drive up but it ran about 1-2 ft deep at the trailhead. The trail was well worn by hikers so snowshoes were not necessary. Crampons would have been nice since a few sections were compacted steep snow and pretty slippery.

Did this on the 2nd day of a Catskills hiking trip. Time to summit from Woodland Valley was three hours and forty minutes and time back was twenty minutes less than that. A very solid seven miles one way with some great scrambling up steep patches. The col between Cornell and Slide had some nice campsites in an interesting high altitude forest.

This was my second stop during a big NE USA peakbagging trip. Several friends had mentioned this peak as a suggestion, mostly because it is one of the most isolated peaks in the USA, so from that standpoint it was good to visit. However, the horrible rain and wind made the hike most unpleasant, and there were no views. I was stunned by how unusually bad the weather was, but then foudn that later that night that a tornado (or set of tornadoes) had taken place near my earlier locations. Too close for comfort!

Hiked Panther, Wittenberg, and Cornell, planning to camp between Cornell and Slide. But atop Cornell we met a large group of scouts aiming for the same campsite, so we decided to push it over Slide as well. Long day!

awesome hike up to the summit, i enjoyed every minute - what a beautiful day! never too cold, sun was out, great views...

the first .5 miles on the trail, just after the parking area at the start/end of the hike was very icy and slippery - otherwise no problems on the trail which was well maintained and clearly marked - we went up Wittenberg Cornell and came back down via the Curtis-Ormsbee trail in about 4 hours, full write up here:

A nice hike with intermittent flurries. Little snow until about 3200' where the snow and ice became deeper. Took us 2:45 to go up and down via Burroughs. Would have made it in less time with micro-spikes. Currently, crampons are not necessary.

There were several rangers on the trail today. It appears a group of three males camped at the summit, which is against park regulations. In addition, the group improperly disposed of food waste and had a fire above 3500'. The group had at least one firearm and the rangers ended up escorting them down with more rangers waiting at the trailhead.